CCP is intensifying efforts to expunge teachers disloyal to the Party by scrutinizing their private lives and encouraging colleagues to inform on each other.
Li Zaili
In Xinjiang, Even Buying Sugar Can Send You to an Internment Camp
For ordinary people, surveilled daily – even to enter one’s home – and treated as terrorists, life in the region turned into a depressing, prison-like existence.
“Hanification”: Uyghur Children Cut off from Their Roots
As Uyghur parents are taken away for re-education, children are surrounded by barbed wire, forbidden to speak their language.
Teachers 2019: Politics More Important Than Teaching
Political studies, restricted speech, and “transformation” tasks: Teachers on assignment in Xinjiang under intense control, causing depression and anxiety.
County in Xinjiang: A Case Study in Destroying Faith
A Bitter Winter reporter went to Shawan county to learn how government suppression affects daily lives: mass arrests, burned books, and destroyed mosques.
Xinjiang Uses Citizen Informers to “Root Out” Enemies
Using agricultural metaphors, authorities move to “excavate, reduce, and eradicate” their enemies by Cultural Revolution-like citizens reporting on each other.
In the Depths of Xinjiang: Ubiquitous Persecution
There is no escape from religious persecution. In the smallest villages, mosques are destroyed, people are forced to break Halal laws, and face re-education.
CCP Interfering with How Muslims Perform Funerals
Government officials are monitoring funeral services in Xinjiang and prohibiting Muslims from commemorating their dead according to their faith and customs.
Authorities Use Welfare Payments Against Tibetan Buddhists
Poor Tibetans lose their land, then lose their subsistence allowances unless they stop the practice of Buddhism. Grid Administrators monitor.
Muslim Detainees Forced to Perform Free Labor
Despite officially ending “re-education through labor” five years ago, Xinjiang is bringing back labor camps. And the Party is reaping the profits.
Li Zaili
Uses a pseudonym for security reasons.